[Dx4win] New upgrade feature involving Skimmer

Radivoj Kar, F6GNZ f6gnz at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 29 07:29:21 EST 2017


Hi,
Many of DX4WIN users are surely also using the CW Skimmer, which is a perfect tool for CW contacts. Unfortunately, clicking on the Skimmer's callsign doesn't populate DX4WIN callsign field. The only way to do it is to link Skimmer via Telnet to DX4WIN local cluster and click on the callsign on the Cluster window, not at all practical for real-time use when wanting to answer just appearing station shown on the Skimmer box.I asked Alex VE3NEA if he could do something about it. Here is my question and his response:
"Responding  to a station  in real time when just seen and clicked on the Skimmer window should at the  same time automatically enter the call in the logger  (in my case DX4WIN), providing that logger's cluster is already connected to the Skimmer's telnet port. This would allow fast contesting/logging.
As it is now, one has to click on the spot transferred from Skimmer Telnet port to the logger cluster port, what is not very convenient for real time operation, like contests, when the band cluster display gets over- crowded."
Alex answered:"CW Skimmer notifies the connected programs of the mouse clicks on the calls. Some loggers make use of these notifications, some 
don't. If DX4WIN doesn't, please bring its author's attention to this.
73 Alex VE3NEA"
So, I think it would be greatly appreciated if the next issue of DW4WIN takes care of this.
73, Radi F6GNZ


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